comfort movies

i'm more of a tv show person when i feel like this. Arrested Development, sometimes Chappelle.

movies: Bourne, Casino Royale (2007), Oldboy, Big Lebowski, Do the Right Thing ('til near the end if i'm too bummed), Fellowship of the Ring (up 'til they leave Rivendell), Bladerunner, 40 Year Old Virgin can be good, but sometimes strike the wrong chord.

Spielberg (CE3K, Raiders). And the first Star Wars (1977).

tommy boy

Fame
Quiz Show
Together

the station agent

DIE HARD

and Wonder Boys

― milo z, Monday, July 7, 2008 1:13 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ and out of sight

Empire Records
Withnail & I
Grosse Pointe Blank

... I'm more a TV show person to though, so I'll more readily get out the Simpsons or Goodies box set or something.

Igby Goes Down
Any film of Jane Austen novel
Chariots of Fire

Depends what I want... uplifting, romantic happy ending, or just to have a bloody good bawl.

Local Hero
The Princess Bride
The Maltese Falcon

Almost Famous, Mean Girls, Clueless

mean girls OTm i might put it on now

I think a comfort movie has to be a movie that you don't get bored of in the middle so....

An American Tale
A Brave Little Toaster

I wanted to say The Big Blue (le grand bleu) but I've only seen it once and I probably would get bored in the middle.
I'm gonna watch Life Aquatic for a second time this weekend and hopefully it wont put me to sleep, because at one time it was my favorite movie (even then I watched it in halves).

and my little sister watches Empire Records over and over with different friends. I blame myself for suggesting it to her.

!!!

Now I really want to watch Brave Little Toaster. It's been years...

Truth About Cats And Dogs
Miracle
Withnail and I
Pretty In Pink
The Notebook

wow: Toaster and Cats and Dogs right on

get bored in the middle

This is probably my biggest problem with comfort movies, finding one that doesn't flag in the middle. There are plenty of movies that I can watch the first half of over and over, and very few that I'll watch all the way through, but somehow it seems "wrong" not to watch a movie until the end.

Also, not a movie, but the "Moog" documentary.

The Philadelphia Story
In The Mood For Love
Dazed and Confused

Manhattan
Double Indemnity
High Fidelity
The Searchers
Reservoir Dogs
Live Free or Die Hard
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Annie Hall
Tommy Boy
Almost Famous

When Harry Met Sally
Groundhog Day

Both films I've seen an inordinate number of times.
I rather imagine The Apartment and Gilda are films I could do this with as well.

Oh, I meant to say Annie Hall too.

Maid in Manhattan. Admitting this has produced catharsis of such power you could use it to blow up the moon. Also, in an attempt to retrieve the little scraps of shame and pride on the floor - The Man Who Would Be King and Dead of Night.

Can't Stop the Music

Gotta be Tenebre, Deep Red, Videodrome and Assault on Precinct 13.

Brick.

lots of laurel & hardy
midnight run
picnic at hanging rock

any of Verhoeven's sci-fi flicks: Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers.

Predator

starship troopers OTM

laurel and hardy rules!

when harry met sally
beverly hills cop (can't believe other people said this one!)
together
roxanne
the royal tenenbaums
manhattan
hannah and her sisters
big

Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club

Yes yes yes. I also have Point Break on my list. Such a great movie. And Fast Times @ RH.

Also, up to a point I could enjoy The Proposal but god damn Reynolds has such a putty (?) face. And of course the plot. God damn.

kung fu hustle
a mighty wind
super troopers
glengarry glen ross
maltese falcon

oh and rio bravo

more buffy dvds than movies at this point, but cold comfort farm and hedwig and the angry inch

Clueless
Mean Girls
Edward Scissorhands

October Sky
Pleasantville
Kinsey

I guess I like movies where people in the '50s fight intellectual repression.

The Big Lebowski
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Fireworks
Michael Clayton
Blade Runner
Ratatouille
2046
Anchorman

In The Mood For Love and X files

bill and teds, zoolander, bring it on, rushmore

Lebowski
Election
Ed Wood
LOTR
The Third Man

there's some movies my sister recorded on vhs off the tv as kids that we watched OVER AND OVER AND OVEr that I still think of as comfort movies, though I haven't seen them in a while..

Big Business
Robin Hood (Disney - roger miller ftw)
Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory
An American Tail
Goonies
Steel Magnolias (but only if I am in the mood to cry, talk about waterworks)
Breakfast Club

Any Pixar, Cars excepted. The Iron Giant.

Pixar movies tend to get me all amped up! They are like calculated to tweak my emotions.

Lawrence of Arabia

Movies I can watch any time:

Quiz Show
The Lady Eve
Husbands and Wives
Naked Lunch
The Player
Reversal of Fortune
Touch of Evil
Notorious

the apartment (wilder)

Yeah, that's a good'un!

A few of mine:

Cool Hand Luke
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski
Woodstock
Plan 9 From Outer Space
The Player
The Right Stuff

Little Shop of Horrors